BREATHTAKING - itv 9pm -mon 19 - wed 21 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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This looks really good and meant to be very powerful

3 parts on this week mon Tue and wed

After the huge impact of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, another social and political reckoning could be coming with the searing new three-part drama (https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/drama) Breathtaking.

Based on palliative care doctor and writer Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir about the Covid-19 crisis, the hard-hitting series is an account of the life of a frontline NHS doctor through the pandemic.

“There is so much misinformation and rewriting of history around what really happened inside our hospitals during the pandemic,” says Clarke.

“The truth is, NHS staff gave everything they had in impossible conditions that sometimes cost them their lives.

It is an honour to try and depict the courage and decency of my NHS colleagues on screen, and I’m so grateful to ITV and HTM Television for giving me the
chance to show the public the truth.”

The three-part series is based on Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir, where she wrote about her own experience of working during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Set in a fictional big-city hospital, the drama narrates how frontline medical staff endured fear and frustration as they desperately tried to save the lives of coronavirus patients,” reads the show’s synopsis.

It recounts the devastating impact of the pandemic through the eyes of acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson (Froggatt).

Who is in the cast of Breathtaking?
• Joanne Froggatt as Dr. Abbey Henderson.
• George Georgiou as Hue.
• Lucy Montgomery as Clare Boxall.
• Georgia Goodman as Divina Aquino.
• Jodie McNee as Jules Jarmen.
• Mark Dexter as Mike.
• Bhav Joshi as Dr. Ant Vyas.
• Henry Meredith as Tommy.

Absolutely nuts given the tiny risk posed by Covid to anyone under the age of 65. Looking back we clearly lost our collective minds at the hands of and thanks to the Covid hysterics among us.

'Statistical risk' worked well for people at the sharp end didn't it?

That was very different though it was over a much longer period of time and you couldn't just catch by being sneezed on etc ,it was known that you had to be exposed to bodily fluids to catch it and also whilst anyone could catch it and believe me after watching the tombstone adverts in the 80,s it terrified me ,specific groups of people sadly largely gay man ,sex workers and IV drug users were far more at Risk than most

No but if heeded, they then can inform and bring about a much more rational policy from the top down - rather than the hysterical over the top shambles we ended up with. And no, locking down was not rational policy given the usually mild severity of this disease and the massive collateral damage lockdowns were known to cause.

You can theorise all you like but, like I said, the Medics , hands on dealing with a ward full of humans gasping for air after falling foul of the statistical risk , still had to deal with what was in front of them.

We're aware of the shambles of government we were lumbered with, but it still meant the hospitals were full of workers picking up the pieces.

Why do you seem determined to obfuscate the actual data?

Why are you determined not to acknowledge the actual lived experience of certain people.

@x2boys There was a lot of ignorance around HIV at the start. People believed you could catch it from cups plates or toilet seats.

I was reminded of this when people were washing their shopping.

Hardly the NHS at breaking point! You seem to forget that the NHS gets overwhelmed every winter.

Haven't forgotten anything tbh. I've just talked to many medic friends who worked during the Covid months. They found it brutal.

My surgeon friend basically worked very little though. It was so difficult to set up operations with infection control. I'm not surprised occupancy was down.

Were you working in a hospital?

Well as all your quotes are from Twitter I hardly think they are a reliable source you can call me a sheeple if you want though ...

Totally agree my catholic mum stopped taking communion because she thought you could catch easily not helped by the tomb stone adverts
It doesn't change the fact it was largely confined to certain demographic groups though.

@Muramba I would be very interested to know if you work clinically or not, your posts suggest not.

Thank you to those of you that have shared your personal experiences on this thread. And it’s a shame some nut jobs are derailing a conversation about how personal experiences are mirrored in the TV show.

The temp hospital in Glasgow was certainly used but not for its original purpose. They used the morgue, it was used for training, it was used for out patient appointments to try and not use actual hospitals and was eventually used for a vaccine centre.

*The anecdotal stories of a few medics, or the anomalies at a select few ICU units do not change the overall data.

And sensible, rational national policy cannot be made using anecdotes.*

Who's trying to make policy here? You have so missed the point.

Your head is so far up the stats that you can only denigrate and minimise the lived experience of the people involved.

I'd love to see you in an actual room with someone who went through the experiences depicted. You know, and you give them your spiel.

" oh no, you were an anomaly "

" statistically , you weren't at risk dear "

" now , rationally, it was only a few of you"

" you've forgotten, you get overwhelmed every winter anyway "

" You do realise, fisherman have it worse?"

I'd be a fly on the wall when they showed you a bit of humanity. 🤦‍♀️

The Nightingales weren't used because there was no one to staff them. Where were all of these extra staff supposed to come from?
At the beginning pretty much no one knew anything and people were terrified, especially after seeing what was happening in Italy and the lunacy of allowing Cheltenham and the Real Madrid match to go ahead.
On Wanstead Flats near us they built huge temporary mortuaries, as a precaution.

Ignore the troll. MNHQ inform me that it's been banned many times under many names.
No doubt it will be back.

Ignore the troll. MNHQ inform me that it's been banned many times under many names.
No doubt it will be back.

They sounded like a very practiced troll. Same old same old.

Whatever your feelings about Covid if one person lived this experience , they lived it.

It doesn't denigrate other experiences.

The PPE situation is an absolute F*ing mess. Especially as Italy had been there before us.

Unbelievable.

I really can’t be bothered reiterating how the country (like other rich countries) were prepared for a long predicted pandemic virus, but the Tories couldn’t be arsed with it when they were elected in 2010, so stopped funding and updating it. Perhaps educate yourself about that.

Wow what a lot of derailing posts I've just woken up to

But guess it happens in true life threads like these

And yes it was true life for many

It’s so incredibly rude and insensitive to deny peoples real traumatic lived experiences for what?
just because you didn’t witness it doesn’t mean others didn’t live it.
the whatabouttery is also irrelevant on a thread about a show around the NHS and Covid.

to my NHS colleagues, you made a difference and I’m sorry for what some had to endure 💐

It was always going to. Such is the state of the denial that exists within certain circles.